Ofoti

Ofoti is the country around Ofotfjord, a long inlet penetrating the mountains of northern Norway. Farms and settlements lie along the fjord and its branches, with the sea providing a route through steep terrain. At Evenes, a church served the district in the Middle Ages. By 1652 its timber building was described as tall, with a tower and an extended chancel, though already in poor repair. The church gave the dispersed communities of the fjord a shared place of worship.